阅读No. 2-3 section B的长文章，希望可以探讨一下。

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My objective is to analyze certain forms of knowledge, not in terms of repression or law,
but in terms of power. But the word power is apt to lead to misunderstandings about the nature,
form, and unity of power. By power, I do not mean a group of institutions and mechanisms that
ensure the subservience of the citizenry. I do not mean, either, a mode of subjugation that, in
contrast to violence, has the form of the rule. Finally, I do not have in mind a general system of
domination exerted by one group over another, a system whose effects, through successive
derivations, pervade the entire social body. The sovereignty of the state, the form of law, or the
overall unity of a domination are only the terminal forms power takes.

It seems to me that power must be understood as the multiplicity of force relations that are
immanent in the social sphere; as the process that, through ceaseless struggle and
confrontation, transforms, strengthens, or reverses them; as the support that these force
relations find in one another, or on the contrary, the disjunctions and contradictions that isolate
them from one another; and lastly, as the strategies in which they take effect, whose general
design or institutional crystallization is embodied in the state apparatus, in the formulation of
the law, in the various social hegemonies.

Thus, the viewpoint that permits one to understand the exercise of power, even in its more
“peripheral” effects, and that also makes it possible to use its mechanisms as a structural
framework for analyzing the social order, must not be sought in a unique source of sovereignty
from which secondary and descendent forms of power emanate but in the moving substrate of
force relations that, by virtue of their inequality, constantly engender local and unstable states
of power. If power seems omnipresent, it is not because it has the privilege of consolidating
everything under its invincible unity, but because it is produced from one moment to the next,
at every point, or rather in every relation from one point to another. Power is everywhere, not
because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere. And if power at times
seems to be permanent, repetitious, inert, and self-reproducing, it is simply because the overall
effect that emerges from all these mobilities is a concatenation that rests on each of them and
seeks in turn to arrest their movement. One needs to be nominalistc, no doubt: power is not an
institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the
name that one attributes to a complex strategic situation in a particular society.

17. The author’s primary purpose in defining power is to
(A) counteract self-serving and confusing uses of the term
(B) establish a compromise among those who have defined the term in different
ways
(C) increase comprehension of the term by providing concrete examples
(D) demonstrate how the meaning of the term has evolved
(E) avoid possible misinterpretations resulting from the more common uses of the term

18. According to the passage, which of the following best describes the relationship
between law and power?
(A) Law is the protector of power.
(B) Law is the source of power.
(C) Law sets bounds to power.
(D) Law is a product of power.
(E) Law is a stabilizer of power.

19. Which of the following methods is NOT used extensively by the author in
describing his own conception of power?
(A) Restatement of central ideas
(B) Provision of concrete examples
(C) Analysis and classification
(D) Comparison and contrast
(E) Statement of cause and effect

20. With which of the following statement would the author be most likely to agree?
(A) Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
(B) The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
(C) To love knowledge is to love power.
(D) It is from the people and their deeds that power springs.
(E) The health of the people as a state is the foundation on which all their power
depends.

21. The author’s attitude toward the various kinds of compulsion employed by social
institutions is best described as
(A) concerned and sympathetic
(B) scientific and detached
(C) suspicious and cautious
(D) reproachful and disturbed
(E) meditative and wistful

22. According to the passage, states of power are transient because of the
(A) differing natures and directions of the forces that create them
(B) rigid structural framework in which they operate
(C) unique source from which they emanate
(D) pervasive nature and complexity of the mechanisms by which they operate
(E) concatenation that seeks to arrest their movement

23. It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes the conflict among social forces to be
(A) essentially the same from one society to another even though its outward
manifestation may seem different
(B) usually the result of misunderstandings that impede social progress
(C) an inevitable feature of the social order of any state
(D) wrongly blamed for disrupting the stability of society
(E) best moderated in states that possess a strong central government

答案：EDBDBAC

这篇文章我感觉内容能读明白，但是题目就是不会做......
18题我选的B，然后20、22、23题都不明白，希望有空的小伙伴能够一起探讨探讨...

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有小伙伴做了这篇文章么？希望不要沉了。

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我还没开始动阅读...抱歉, 我就不添乱了. 帮你顶一下, 不让他沉下去. 我也建议你直接到版里发一个, 可能效果好点. 貌似大部分打卡的孩子, 主要是为了监督自己..

stucashUID: 2801061

擦..原来版里能看到.....忽略我把..

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17题看首段连续几个的I dont mean，是为了避免误解（E）。
a错在self-serving；b错在compromise；c错在example，全文无例子。所以19题也该选出来了B，没有例子。 d错在evolve，没说到演化。
18题看首段末句：are only the terminal forms power takes。所以D。
20题看第2段：大意是各种集团互相撕逼，产生power；或者看第三段第三句“Power is everywhere, not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere”就是说来自人与人之间的博弈。选d
a是现实中正确，文中无对应；  b也是这样；  c利用首句出现了knowledge和power来迷惑你的；e错在health；
21题明显选b 作者理客中哈。
22题看3段首句：各种暗流涌动，不稳定，三十年河东三十年河西。选a。
23题用排除法更好选。a错在各个社会的利益集团强弱不同；  b错在misunderstandings；  d错在wrongly ； e错在central government。